"Airburst/Counter Defilade Capability" -- adapt current weapons to fire warheads that strike shielded targets. Here, for instance, a U.S. Army soldier fires the experimental XM25, whose airburst can detonate at a specific, pre-determined point near a hidden or obscured target.

Photo: U.S. Army

"Airburst/Counter Defilade Capability" -- adapt current weapons to...

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"Concealable/Take Down Urban Sniper Rifle" -- a small, light sniper rifle that can be rapidly dissembled for concealed and rapidly reassembled, and has a suppressed (silenced) barrel or is compatible with a current suppressor.

"Advanced Small Arms Propellant" -- propellants for assessment in
standard military calibers that have a higher energy density, are stable
in a wide range of temperatures and maintain constant velocities.

Photo: David Guttenfelder, STF

"Advanced Small Arms Propellant" -- propellants for assessment in...

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"Lightweight RPG-7 Launcher or Trainer" -- a 40mm rocket-propelled grenade launcher or trainer that weighs less than 9 pounds, has enhanced fire control, and can fire RPG-7 ammunition safely, reliably and accurately.

Photo: Johannes Eisele, AFP/Getty Images

"Lightweight RPG-7 Launcher or Trainer" -- a 40mm rocket-propelled...

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"M4A1 Belt Feed Kit" -- a kit that converts the M4A1 from a magazine-fed rifle to a belt-fed lightweight machine gun.

Photo: John Moore, Getty Images

"M4A1 Belt Feed Kit" -- a kit that converts the M4A1 from a...

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"Personnel Defense Weapon" -- a weapon that weighs 5 to 6 pounds and is 16 to 18 inches long, making it significantly smaller and lighter than standard rifles, but "with capabilities beyond any pistol." There's interest in a modification to an M4A1 rifle and a unique weapon design.

Photo: Bob Owen, San Antonio Express-News

"Personnel Defense Weapon" -- a weapon that weighs 5 to 6 pounds...

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".338 Lapua Magnum Anti-Materiel Ammunition" -- .338 Lapua magnum ammunition that would pierce body armor and a cinder block wider than 12 inches, and stop vehicle and small boat engines when fired from a sniper rifle at ranges from 500 meters to 1,500 meters.

Photo: Boris Barowski/Wikimedia Commons

".338 Lapua Magnum Anti-Materiel Ammunition" -- .338 Lapua magnum...

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"Stopping/Disabling Individuals" -- technologies that can stop and disable combatants and noncombatants for an extended period without killing them. (We're guessing they don't mean Tasers, but who knows?)

"Stopping/Disabling Individuals" -- technologies that can stop and...

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"Deny Area/Isolate Objective" -- technologies that keep combatants and
noncombatants out of a specific area for a specified period of time
without killing them.

Photo: Michael P. Farrell

"Deny Area/Isolate Objective" -- technologies that keep combatants...

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"Precision Guided Small Arms Munitions" -- a small weapon "capable of delivering highly accurate kinetic effects on stationary, moving, soft targets, or the interior of hardened targets at ranges beyond crew served weapons effective range." Possibilities include some sort of grenade or drone.

Photo: Library Of Congress 1940s Color Photo Collection

"Precision Guided Small Arms Munitions" -- a small weapon "capable...

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"Through-wall imaging/sensing."

Photo: Maya Alleruzzo, AP

"Through-wall imaging/sensing."

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Capability to conduct secure, communications with low probability of intercept.

Photo: Todd Pitman, AP

Capability to conduct secure, communications with low probability...

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"Device on a chip" -- a single platform/enclosure in which troops could plug and play modules for varying missions without having to jump between multiple interfaces.

"Lightweight body armor" -- weighs less than 5.5 pounds per square foot and is able to defeat a specified list of rounds with "less than 44 millimeters of backface deformation."

Photo: Megan Locke Simpson / Fort Campb

"Lightweight body armor" -- weighs less than 5.5 pounds per square...

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"Lightweight helmet" -- weighs less than 2 pounds per square foot and is able to defeat specified rifle rounds with the less than 25.4 millimeters of backface deformations on the front and back, and less than 16 millimeters on the crown, left and right sides.

"Power and Energy/Lighten the Load" -- find ways to lighten the load for a special operations operator on foot "without adversely impacting his survivability and ability to communicate, move, and shoot." Design solutions that incorporate operators as a system, with equipment as subsystems. Include centrally wearable power, automatic power charging/recharging capability, seamless integration for all powered subsystems and novel power systems.

Photo: Maya Alleruzzo

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"Tagging, tracking, and locating devices/technologies."

Photo: Melissa Phillip, Houston Chronicle

"Tagging, tracking, and locating devices/technologies."

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"Provide safe and reliable power for unattended sensors in both submerged and land environments capable of operating for at least 10 years. Provide significant energy storage capacity and power to transmit data."

The military is taking input on new toys for special operations troops.

Specifically, U.S. Special Operations Command on Monday put out a request for "white papers" from industry, academia, individuals and government laboratories that can design, make and test a range of technologies.

"The intent is to accelerate the delivery of innovative capabilities to the (Special Operations Forces) warfighter," Special Operations Command wrote. "It is an interactive process designed to assess the viability of technologies while simultaneously refining user requirements."

Areas of interest include weapons, communication, electronics, body armor and human performance. Some aim to make current gear lighter and higher-performing, while others are whole new high-tech gizmos.

Click through the gallery above to check out items from the wish list.